Food As Medicine: Perspectives On Tackling Childhood Obesity.

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-  By Julia B. Olayanju

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Good food is vital to overall well being. As such, innovating food for sole purpose of driving positive change in our communities is equally important.

Childhood obesity has been described as “ one of the most serious health challenges of the 21st century”- World Health Organization. According to the Center for Disease Prevention and Control, 1 in 5 children in America are considered obese, a ratio that is triple the data reported 3 decades ago.  Obesity is a problem that predisposes to several health challenges as published by Ebbeling and colleagues

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